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Blue Adeline
04:28
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BLUE ADELINE
Blue Adeline
I can see you lying awake with wonder
I can see you running alive with hunger
Blue Adeline
Your face felt like mine
Remember how we hung there above the hollow?
Remember how you went where I could not follow?
Blue as a day without rain, without rain
Blue as a song that I make my refrain
Blue Adeline
I keep you through time
And inside my soul you’re an open window
Even now I still think I feel that wind blow
Blue, you’re a day without shame, without shame
Blue, you’re a song that I’ll sing for so long
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2. |
Heavens Hold the Sun
03:43
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HEAVENS HOLD THE SUN
Long time, no sound, long years, waiting and waiting.
I hear it now, too loud, too strange to ignore.
I’ll watch that road, my heart steady as a snare drum.
When you get here I’m gonna meet you like the ocean meets the shore.
Don’t hang that head, you know it’s nothing I ain’t seen before.
Bring me your trash, your love as messy as a plum.
Bring me your weight, your shame, and the devil on your shoulder.
When you get here I’m gonna hold you like the heavens hold the sun.
It’s done, now here you come, smelling of the struggle.
I’ve worn that face before and it always leaves a stain.
Brokedown screen door, don’t bother with the bell.
When you get here I’m gonna greet you like the desert greets the rain.
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3. |
To the Wire
04:02
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TO THE WIRE
I see you across the room
Can’t say hi, it’s too soon
Don’t know why this doesn’t fit
I try and try, still I can’t make it
The world is wide, where’s my corner
Somewhere to hide, somewhere to flow from
People here are all so friendly
They smile and smile, still they can’t see me
And I thought that I’d made it so far
But I’m right back down to the wire
Act your age, quit your stalling
Turn the page, heed your calling
Are you the dance or the dancer?
You ask and ask and still no answer
And you thought that you’d made it so far
But you’re right back down to the wire
So come on now, blow my cover,
Bend my knees, be my other.
There’s still a place you can’t take me
There’re still some things you can’t make me
And we thought that we’d made it so far
But we’re right back down to the wire
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4. |
Midnight Ringer
04:13
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MIDNIGHT RINGER
Uncle and me, stranger is three,
these bars smell like rain.
Well you check or you bet, there’s no telling yet,
but I’ll see you just the same.
My newest friend, my lucky hand,
I’ll see you around.
Well it takes take to give, takes death to live
if the gospels tell it right.
Cause gleaming under the door of a heart spoken for
is a life-awaited light.
My shotgun singer, my midnight ringer,
I’ll see you around.
And 1000 sparrows came down from the blue
And landed lightly just to prove you true
Well pour me a pour, you’re a stranger no more,
now we’re laughing and lateing.
I’ll kiss you out of the truck, let’s say it’s for luck
and the silver wings waiting
I’ll watch them rise, from wheels to sky
I’ll see you around.
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5. |
If Not for Love
03:27
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IF NOT FOR LOVE
Have you asked the wildest bird to change his song? It’s the only one he knows.
Have you tried to keep the river from the sea? Still that river flows.
If not for love what are you for?
We blow like weeds upon the wind, we hold the ground, we drink the rain.
We throw our seeds into the world before we go the way we came.
If not for love what are you for?
If there was only time enough for one last look, what would you see?
If there was only breath enough for one more word, what would it be?
If not for love what are you for?
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6. |
Riverwide
04:19
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RIVERWIDE
Oh river wide, older than time
Hold us inside, don’t go dry
Dreamed, swam with you, ancient and new
Woke up and knew it was true
River’s deep, the river’s long and wide
No one ever reach the other side
Take off your skin, no more pretend
World without end, without end
Let that water wash away your name
In that water everyone the same
River’s deep, the river’s long and wide
No one ever reach the other side
Oh river wide, older than time
Hold us inside, don’t go dry
Don’t go dry
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7. |
1000 Reasons
04:33
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1000 REASONS
Would you meet me in the windy city
If I come down from the sky
Would you take me to your fields of plenty
With horizon in your eye
Let’s take a ride across the rolling prairie
Where the old ghost dancers died
Break my heart a little wider open
So the whole world falls inside
I got 1000 reasons
and each one is enough
Found you looking like a four leaf clover
In a field all gone to seed
Worked me over like a holy roller
And I believe, I believe, I believe
I got 1000 reasons
and each one is enough
it’s enough
So will you meet me in your windy city
When I come down from the sky
Want to see you in your fields of plenty
With horizon in your eye
I see horizon in your eye
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8. |
Birds of Belfast
04:57
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BIRDS OF BELFAST
The field grew wild all that buzzing summer
We dozed a while, woke a little younger
Hung your clothes, waited on the weather
Thorn and rose twine and grow together
When did all the birds of Belfast learn to sing your name?
When did all those silver ashes breathe into flame?
Who are you without your sadness? Who am I without my shame?
When did all the birds of Belfast learn to sing your name?
Which was right, the fight or the surrender?
You my light, my solitary mender
Still the sun will rise on every weeper’s mourning
Tearstained eyes, pearly light adorning
When did all the birds of Belfast learn to sing your name?
When did all those silver ashes breathe into flame?
Who are you without your sadness? Who am I without my shame?
When did all the birds of Belfast learn?
Who am I to sing a love song? Who are you to do the same?
With our weary little hearts full of broken little claims?
Will they even recognize us? Should I give you a new name?
And then all the birds of Belfast would sing it just the same.
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9. |
Oleander
03:05
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OLEANDER
Born a little soon, raised on too much moon,
learned to get by on Leave me alone.
Be the restless one, be the burning son.
Then you filled your hands with oleander and
all the strippings of pride gone astray.
All that secret work, all those pretty words
that still don’t hold you
Now you spend your days in the dappled rays
of his love like a fern in the shade.
In a world of green no one’s ever seen
and oh it holds you.
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10. |
Kiss It Away
03:14
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KISS IT AWAY
Let it in & let it go
You, falling like a lotus from my hand
You, the only secret I can stand
I let you in & I let you go
Take me flying on your eagles wings
Way way way up above the sting
Let me in & let me go
Come on, come on, come on,
Come on kiss it away
Come on, come on, come on, come on,
Air gets old when you make it stay
We let it in & we let it go
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11. |
Freediver
04:02
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FREEDIVER
Louie, all of the angels are facing outward
Down here all of the stars look the same
Lately I’m in the glare of a thousand glances
Tell me, why are they staring so strange
At a freediver
Louie, you in the sunlight, you breathe so freely
Upright, driest of winds in your hair
Loosely holding the line that becomes an anchor
Let me look for your hand in the air
I’m a freediver
Louie, all of the oceans are here inside me
Lately even each stone has a name
Search me, I don’t know if I am air or water
Truly I think they’re one and the same
To a freediver
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12. |
Brand New Sound
03:26
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BRAND NEW SOUND
I’ll move the air between us
I’ll touch you that way
I’ll make the waves crash on your shore
I’ll move the air between us
You’ll feel it even more, even more
There’s places in your mind
been working overtime
trying to name a brandnew sound.
There’s places in your heart
listening to the ground, to the ground
All your windy life you waited, now it’s time.
Halfway around the world,
a blue and shaky girl
is lying underneath the clouds.
She’s whispering your name,
she sings it right out loud, right out loud
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Kris Delmhorst Massachusetts
“Long Day in the Milky Way” is a shimmering compendium of sometimes murmuring, sometimes urgent pop and Americana sounds" Boston Globe
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